Freeform 4+
Bring your ideas to life
Apple
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- Free
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Description
Freeform is a great place to bring your ideas to life. Sketch out a project, design a mood board or start a brainstorming session on a flexible canvas that supports almost any kind of file. And with iCloud, all your boards stay in sync, whether you’re on your Mac, your iPad or your iPhone.
Features
Unleash your creativity
• Add photos, video, audio, documents, PDFs, web links, stickies and more anywhere on a Freeform board, perfect for creating a digital pinboard, collecting research for a school project or gathering inspiration for your home renovation.
• Use your finger, or Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad, to draw anywhere on the canvas. Choose from a variety of brush styles and colours.
• Create beautiful diagrams with a library of over 700 shapes and alignment guides to help make your document look just the way you’d like.
• Scan paper documents with the built-in document scanner to archive documents and even annotate them if you’d like, directly on the board.
Collaborate with others
• Invite your friends or colleagues into your board for real-time collaboration. Freeform brings people together into a shared space for creativity, whether you’re at your desk or on the go. Easily invite others via email, link or Messages.
• Brainstorm together with up to 100 collaborators in the same board.
• Communicate with Messages or FaceTime. When you’re working on a board with others, you can jump into the associated Messages conversation or start a FaceTime call with your collaborators with a single tap.
Certain features are available only in selected languages and regions.
Ratings and Reviews
Promising app
The app is really great. Very intuitive and minimalistic. It has lots of tools though. The main disadvantage is that you cannot divide the note for pages so it would be easy to print and the file save format is unusual so it is hard sometimes to share it. Im waiting for an update.
The Moodboarder’s Dream App with Some Hiccups
Freeform is the app I’ve been waiting for. However, I don’t use it the way it’s intended—I don’t collaborate. For me, it’s my go-to moodboarding app. I love capturing ideas and inspirations in a non-linear way. I can place pictures, screenshots, video clips, drawings right next to short text notes or handwritten comments. While the Notes app can do some of that, they quickly turn my notes into long, almost non-searchable pages. Freeform lets me arrange all these elements any way I want.
But, there’s a downside: the app isn’t very stable. I often encounter issues, especially with boards that have more content. Recently, I realized that I constantly worry about the possibility of losing a board due to errors.
Working with text is a bit tricky. I’d appreciate more user-friendly ways to add titles. Sections would be a great addition, and a tag system would be a welcome feature. The ability to link mood boards together would also be fantastic. And seriously, why isn’t Freeform in the OS sharing menu?
Already very useful, but there is a lot to improve
I love the app, BUT…
… collapsing collections of items is the feature I miss the most. Or at least linking boards. The app becomes very laggy on an iPhone when there are lots of items. This would also help to organise stuff better.
… editing textboxes on an iPhone is a horror. Double clicking on a text to edit it moves it to a top left corner of the screen, but the screen doesn’t move as you type, so if you like to have a centered text, you immediately lose track of what you are typing, as the text expands to both sides.
… from time to time there are random jumps to distant places on the board, especially when zooming in or out on an iPhone. I have no idea what causes it, but it is very annoying, to have to search again for the previously displayed section.
… x-callback links to other apps on iPhone doesn’t work, because previews don’t work for them. And it would be handy to be able to link my notes stored in another app.
… it is not possible to zoom with a mouse scroll on a MacBook. This is a must have for me.
App Privacy
The developer, Apple, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
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APPLE DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- DUNS Number
- 985013578
- Address
- HOLLYHILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE HOLLYHILL CORK T23 YK84 Ireland
- Phone Number
- +1 8002752273
- support@apple.com
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.2 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.2 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2024 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free